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...visit the graves of their ancestors. Two Swedish armored personnel carriers passed over the 50-100-kg explosive device before it was detonated from about 1 km away, U.N. officials said. Violence against Serbs has become commonplace in Kosovo and is now driven less by revenge than the pursuit of political independence...
...Angels, made kung-fu fighters out of Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu. Corey Yuen (no relation) put Jet Li through a black-and-blue workout in the box-office hit Romeo Must Die. And who supervised the buoyant action scenes in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?the pursuit by Michelle Yeoh of Zhang Ziyi across a courtyard and over rooftops; the same antagonists' fierce swordfight; the balletic battle of Zhang and Chow Yun-fat on bamboo treetops?that lifted Ang Lee's Mandarin drama out of the art houses to become the top-grossing foreign-language film...
...Palestinians, and operating within the new prime minister's vision of pursuing only interim agreements for the foreseeable future. Sharon ultimately believes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can't be resolved. Instead, it should be be managed to the extent that the interests of leaders on both sides converge in pursuit of stability. And Labor's leaders appear ready to embrace that logic - on the campaign trail they'd insisted that a final peace deal was within reach of a few more weeks of intense negotiation; now they're saying there's no chance of a deal and that they might...
Faculty and students alike should be more willing to acknowledge the extent to which grades are tangential to course material. This would do much to dispel Harvard's grade obsessive culture and shift emphasis toward the pursuit of learning for its own sake...
...central India. A former ambassador to China, Mishra is now the Prime Minister's most trusted adviser, his Principal Secretary and his National Security chief. Rivals describe him as the second-most powerful man in India. In 1999, Mishra overturned Indian Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani's threatened "hot pursuit" policy in Kashmir, which would have involved crossing the Line of Control and striking insurgents in Pakistani territory. Usurping control over Kashmir, he launched Operation Break Ice, through which India made secret overtures to the Hurriyat leaders in Srinagar and Kashmiri insurgents inside India and Pakistan, often through contacts...